Worzalla, an employee-owned printing company specializing in high-quality children’s books, cookbooks, and hard-cover best sellers, is working with the Portage County Library to support their summer reading programs with the goal of inspiring the community to reach their summer reading goals. Worzalla has donated 500 children’s books for the Library to use as summer reading rewards and is also donating 500 bags that the Library will use for their Lit Loot program.
“We love to get children and teens reading, learning, and participating at the library each summer, and then reward their hard work with prize books, but incentives like these are quite costly. We are thrilled that Worzalla has offered to help us cover some of these expenses so that we can expand our programming and reach even more community members,” said Nicole Ozanich, Youth Services Librarian at the Portage County Public Library.
“It was a perfect fit for us to offer our support to the Library’s summer reading programs,” said Brianne Petruzalek, Vice President of Human Resources at Worzalla. “Reading is a great way to escape, activate our imaginations and over the summer it’s a critical part of maintaining literacy skills while school’s out. At Worzalla, we’re proud to print some of the titles these kids will spend time reading during the program.”
The Library will use the donation of books to support their incentive prizes for their Summer Reading Challenges for preschool, school-age, and teens. The Library’s Lit Loot program invites kids, teens, and adults to register for a free personalized book subscription bag with a new theme each month. Bags will contain a relevant and custom-selected library book and surprise themed goodies. Previous month’s themes included ‘Tread Softly’, ‘It’s My Life’, ‘Totally Rad’, and others. The Portage County Public Library’s full roster of summer programming runs through the end of July and can be found at pocolibrary.org/youth-family-resources.
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